Mark Ruffalo Shares How He Predicted a Past Benign Brain Tumor

And after a CT scan, Mark was given the alarming news.

“She comes in and she’s kind of like a zombie,” he explained. “She says, ‘You have a mass behind your left ear the size of a golf ball. We don’t know what it is. We can’t tell you until it’s biopsied.'”

The hardest part of the ordeal, however, was as Mark and Sunrise’s baby was arriving “imminently,” he opted to wait until a week after the arrival of their son Keen, now 22, to share the news with his wife.

“I couldn’t tell Sunny,” the Marvel alum lamented. “She had the birth plan, she did the yoga, she had the doula.”